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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100160065-9
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: July 27, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
27 July 1?180
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From remarks. to. the. Senate In Sen., John H-Chaffee (R R.L)
Almost. five -years -,ago,_ Richard'
Welch,..CIA station., chief in -Athens,.
Greece, was brutally murdered in front
of. his-! home as; he returned..from a
Christmas party at the American amba-
sador's residence. Welch's assassination
occurred within a month of the time. -
that he was, publicly identified as-,CIA stations chief in The Athens DailyNews..
The:'information, for The News`story:
came from.- Philip Agee's Counterspy
magazine. '
Congress-has `done ' nothing legisla
tively to address the problem of "nam-
ing-names.'-At the' time of'theWelch
assassination;'-: Counterspy:-- -magazine
-claimed-they had-leaked. the- names of
225 alleged CIA agents.. Now; five years
later; Louis Wolf of.the CovertsAction
Information-Bulletin can boastthat he
has., helped'' to-.disclose,the ;names:'of
more than 2,000 American intelligence'
officers stationed around: the world; ".
,Thissame Louis.1Volf,w_as.responsible
.for revealing the names. of: 15 alleged
CIA officers in Kingston,.Jamaica, this
month. Within 48 hours of the announce-
ment, the home "of:_`one 'of the men
named, Richard Kinsman of the U.S. Em-
bassy,,was fired upon with submachine
'guns and an explosive device
Clearly this "naming names must
`be 'stopped: Congress?must.act immedi
ately to place a cost on'the`activity of
those who use this as a means to impair
-and impede duly authorized-American
intelligence operations -.around' the
:world
;In my judgment, the time is ripe for
'markup of an intelligence identities
bill: ? Both' the House and the Senate
have introduced - legislation on this
issue. I think recent events in Jam-
aica make it particularly timely for us
to address this urgent issue now.
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